University of Sussex Rankings 2025

About the University

One of the best public institutions in Brighton, United Kingdom; the University of Sussex was founded in 1959 with its initial campus in East Sussex. The university has a QS World University Ranking of 240 (2023) and a U.S. News ranking of 245 for 2024. The University of Sussex has five Nobel Prize winners on its faculty, as well as 15 Fellows of the Royal Society, 10 Fellows of the British Academy, 24 Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences, and winners of the Crawford Prize and Bancroft Prize, among other honors. 
 

Additionally, it has received praise for its outstanding employment strategy, excellent student success rate, and the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) silver award. A very high percentage of Sussex students from all backgrounds successfully complete their courses.

University of Sussex World Rankings 

Subject Wise Rankings 

The University of Sussex has a QS WUR Ranking by Subject of #1 and holds the first place globally for Development Studies according to QS. 

The U.S. News subject rankings are as follows: 

• #217 in Art and humanities; 
• #80 in Economics and Business; 
• #135 in Physics; 
• #106 in Space Science;
• #88 in Social science and public health;
• #274 in Environment and Ecology; 
• #139 in Psychology and psychiatry. 

Employability Ranking 

According to QS, the University of Sussex has a graduate employability ranking of #301- 500. 

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